NVIDIA NVS 510 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM NVS 510 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA NVS 510 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

NVS 510

0.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +983%

3.315 TFLOPS

NVS 510

VS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2012

Release Date

Jan 2013

NVS

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

891 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

28.51GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

192

Shading Units

1792

16

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.188 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

12.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

306.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

12.75 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK107

GPU Name

Tahiti

GK107-301-A2

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.27 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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